On Saturday, February 9, 2013 6:54:38 PM UTC-5, Kim Jones wrote: > > What an extraordinarily interesting idea, Craig! I'll have to let Brian > Eno know about this. Eno was recently talking about the possibilities of a > new kind of "inaudible music". Actually, John Cage already "invented" that > in the '50s with his infamous piece "4'.33" " - where the pianist walks to > the keyboard, sits there for 4 minutes and 33 seconds (without playing > anything) and then gets up and leaves. The "music" is in fact all the > little reactionary giggles, guffaws, sighs etc. of the audience's outraged > reaction. Also the tweets of the little birdies in the trees outside etc. > It qualifies as music because each and every performance of 4'. 33" is > different. The environment interprets the score; the performer is merely > the catalyst. And I can assure you, good old John Cage was no stranger to > the odd hallucinogenic experience. >
Yes, I'm familiar with all of that. The history of art and music is full of conceptual provocations, from Malevich to Duchamp, Shoenberg to Zappa. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LACCAF04wSs While I agree that these can be very interesting and imaginative, they hardly disprove my point. Music is in no danger of being replaced by silent representations of music. > Can we encode the music of silence in binary? > We can't encode any music in binary, we can only encode instructions for an instrument to stimulate human ears in a way that we find musical, or silent. Craig > > Kim > > > > > > On 09/02/2013, at 10:45 AM, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > If music were just an audible math though, then people should enjoy > watching oscilloscope renditions of songs with no sound as much as they do > listening to them. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
